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KAREN WALROND
lightmaker • radiant rebel • total amateur
 

CHOOKOOLOONKS

a journal about making light by karen walrond

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constant view (7/100)
constant view (7/100)

This view hasn’t changed all week.

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placesKaren WalrondJuly 30, 2020 Comments
fierce and beautiful (6/100)
fierce and beautiful (6/100)

This succulent is #goals.

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Karen WalrondJuly 29, 2020Comment
calm in the storm (5/100)
calm in the storm (5/100)

Remember to breathe.

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Karen WalrondJuly 28, 2020Comment
the revolution will not be on social media (4/100)
the revolution will not be on social media (4/100)
Karen WalrondJuly 27, 2020 Comments
across-the-pond birthday (3/100)
across-the-pond birthday (3/100)

Celebrating across the pond today.

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Karen WalrondJuly 26, 2020Comment
tropics (2/100)
tropics (2/100)

Starting a creative practice.

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big plansKaren WalrondJuly 25, 2020Comment
this was a good week (1/100)
this was a good week (1/100)

Featuring babies, song and light.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondJuly 24, 2020 Comments
a good trouble revolution
a good trouble revolution

How will you get yourself in good trouble?

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big plans, how to make light, random thoughtsKaren WalrondJuly 20, 2020 Comments
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring board games, bélé and a birthday!

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondJuly 17, 2020 Comments
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring Sydney, a talented songstress and a little surprise.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondJuly 10, 2020Comment
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring a beloved bartender, a world portrait, and Hamilton.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondJuly 3, 2020 Comments
what is activism?
what is activism?

How do you define activism?

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big plansKaren WalrondJune 29, 2020 Comments
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring begonias, embroidery, and The Chicks.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondJune 26, 2020 Comments
go brave
go brave

it’s time to speak my mind — with my values close at hand.

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random thoughtsKaren WalrondJune 24, 2020 Comments
this was a good week
this was a good week

Featuring Malala Yousafzai's graduation, pandemic prom, and dads of America.

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a little list of good thingsKaren WalrondJune 19, 2020Comment
hi.
hi.

Things are going to be a little different around here.

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big plansKaren WalrondJune 14, 2020 Comments
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"Over the weekend, I spent a considerable amount of time cleaning out my bedroom closet. I’m vaguely embarrassed by this: those of you who’ve been reading my words for a while now know that we lost 99% of everything we owned in the f
I was just talking to my dad on the phone, and fretting about … well, everything.  And he said, in the way only a Trinidadian father can:

“What is to is will is, my child.”

And he’s so right.
"...rather than simply being a workshop where I have access to a wheel, the pottery has become a home-away-from-home, a “third space” — that place that’s not home and not work, but where I still connect with others in com
Hitting the road headed home after a lovely #mom2summit. But first…
 

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